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    Support Literacy at Home.

    21 Feb 2020 /

    Are you a teacher-mom who buys TpT products for your kid?! I’m the one, don’t judge me. Well, it doesn’t happen often, but if there is a need, I shop on TpT like in the pharmacy, trying to choose the best product for my child. My daughter is in kindergarten. Seeing how this little one develops her writing and reading skills is impressive. Because I’m a teacher, early literacy is a big deal to me. I painstakingly check all the homework, and if there is a gap, I go out of my way to practice with Milania and include my husband in the teaching process. I’m not going to lie.…

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    Yanina

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    Finding Relevance In Content For Our Students’ Lives.

    18 Sep 2018

    Is Teaching Sustainable For Your Lifestyle?

    4 Dec 2018

    Failure is (NOT) an Option In the Teaching Profession.

    29 Mar 2018
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    Why Most New Teacher Advice is Senseless.

    10 Sep 2019 /

    I did it too! My blog features some posts offering tips to new teachers. Ironically, during my third year of teaching, I felt I mastered the basics: discipline, WIDA standards, building relationships, confidence during observations, routines, and procedures for smooth class functioning. Thus, having survived the first year of sink-or-swim teaching experience, I figured I could spare some advice to a new teacher. Like many, my posts called for not giving up, taking it easy, and opening oneself to learning. For some odd reason, these teachings now sound as senseless as saying a brief “just take it easy” to a woman giving birth without an epidural. How could I be…

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    Yanina

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    What You Truly Need to Grow as a Teacher.

    19 Mar 2019

    10 Lessons I Learned My First 2 Years of Teaching.

    9 May 2018

    Looking For a Job While Employed: To Search or Not To Search?

    28 Aug 2018
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    10 Sir Ken Robinson Quotes That Will Make You Think Differently About Education & Teaching.

    27 Aug 2019 /

    How Sir Ken Robinson Quotes Pierce Through The Crap In Education & Why It’s Good If You Suck At Something. Sir, Ken Robinson quotes have the force of instantly placing the education problems into the limelight. They are bold, provocative, daring, and most importantly, they draw an often sad reality of education in a classroom. How do we educate children so that they could create not just follow rules? Are we educating compliant kids? Are we bold enough to question assessment, routines, content we are implementing and teaching? Why do kids grow up to be miserable adults? How can we guarantee that every child has a fair shot to get…

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    Yanina

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    8 Pitfalls To Avoid For A New ESL Teacher.

    9 Oct 2018

    Explore Your Creative Genius As A Teacher.

    13 Nov 2018

    Looking For a Job While Employed: To Search or Not To Search?

    28 Aug 2018
  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER,  MINDFULNESS & MINDSET

    5 Ways to Turn The Anxious Teacher Mode Down.

    20 Aug 2019 /

    Three years ago, in the first year of my career, I envied young teachers in their 3rd or 4th year of teaching, thinking they already have it all to make the year easy. Being at a higher level of experience might make you a different, happier, more confident teacher, I thought. This September will be my 4th year of teaching, but the feelings are a reflection of the past: lost, overwhelmed without reason. And then it occurred to me that 10th year of teaching might not change anything in the job perception because it’s not about the years of experience, it’s about attitude, the way one sees a career, the…

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    Yanina

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    4 Dec 2018

    Explore Your Creative Genius As A Teacher.

    13 Nov 2018
  • EFFECTIVE TEACHER,  MINDFULNESS & MINDSET

    Brainwashing For Teachers or What Not To Do in Summer.

    9 Jul 2019 /

    Flip furniture! Drive Uber and Lift! Offer cleaning home services! Run a delivery service! Make meals for others! Weed of mow lawns! Become a real estate agent! Do a medical study! Become a drone pilot! Open up an Etsy shop! Be a pet sitter! Be a nanny! “You are out of your mind! …” My eyes are running through the list of odd jobs offered as a side hustle for teachers to make extra money in summer. “If I could, I would punch you in the face, whoever wrote this post!”- I laughed at my own dismay. I’m a teacher who can afford to stay home in summer because I…

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    Being Reactive Is a Dead End.

    27 Nov 2018

    Transformational Books.

    11 Dec 2018

    Should I Become A Superintendent?

    4 Sep 2018
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    How To Become an Irreplaceable Teacher in Your School.

    25 Jun 2019 /

    Someone told me once if I wanted to avoid tribulations and uncertainty in your position, you need to become an irreplaceable professional. Well, “nothing is irreplaceable,” you might think. I feel the idea of irreplaceability can be interpreted differently based on the work circumstances and the school culture in general. In my new school district where I started working as an ESL push-in teacher,  I’ve been struggling with understanding my purpose in the classroom, figuring out ways to collaborate with content area teachers, providing quality support for my English language learners within time and space restrictions. My district has become infamous for moving the teachers around to different schools, and…

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    My Passive Income Obsession.

    1 Jan 2019

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    25 Sep 2018
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    5 Things I Have Learned as an ESL Push-in Model Teacher That I’m Taking into the Next School Year.

    11 Jun 2019 /

    1) The importance of the lesson flow routines Everyone knows about that, don’t they? Routines and procedures are the backbones of any lesson, and they determine the success of it to a great extent. You might ask, “what routines are you talking about if you are in an ESL push-in model?” The reality is you don’t control the flow of the lesson, which is controlled by the content area teacher. On some occasions when you do pull out your English language learners (see one of my posts here), there IS a place for lesson routines and procedures. However, when you push-in your language learners in math, science, social studies, or…

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    Yanina

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    33 Ways to Save Time and Money as a Teacher.

    16 May 2018

    What Do You Do When You Are On The Brink of Quitting Your Teaching Job?

    18 Dec 2018

    5 Things an ESL Push-in Teacher Should Consider Doing Differently or Start Doing.

    4 Jun 2019
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    5 Things an ESL Push-in Teacher Should Consider Doing Differently or Start Doing.

    4 Jun 2019 /

    The last couple of months as I continue my work as an ESL push-in teacher, I have grown, have started and given up a bunch of projects and ideas, have discovered things I ought to have or do to be efficient and avoid being desperate about having no classroom of my own and being a nomad in my own school. With lack comes innovation and a better understanding of essentials I need in my profession, the tools that make my work productive, with no time wasted. What I also have learned is that evaluating administrators of ESL push-in teachers do not become more lenient or permissive of mistakes just because…

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    There Are Things You Cannot Control In Education, So Stop Worrying About Them.

    6 Nov 2018

    How We React to Teaching Profession Affects Our Mood, Self-image, Life.

    5 Mar 2019

    Being Reactive Is a Dead End.

    27 Nov 2018
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    A Minimalist ESL Teacher.

    16 Apr 2019 /

    After my first year of being a teacher in a high school, I’ve decided to make a transformation in my thinking and my behavior which I hoped would help me undo my perception of the teaching profession as unsustainable. The necessity of this transformation came from my inability to understand why things that I love to do would take a toll on my life and health. I already wrote about being depressed and anxious during my first month of teaching, and while a lot of anxiety and depression have left, I am still learning to balance the work and my “after-work-life” by creating strict boundaries, developing procedures, and creating tools…

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    Yanina

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    How To Get A Job Again: Tips For ESL Teachers.

    2 Oct 2018

    What’s With Packets?..

    15 Jan 2019

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    6 Nov 2018
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    How NOT To Create Dependent ESL Learners.

    3 Apr 2019 /

    If you are an ESL teacher who pushes in students in other content area classes, you might sometimes ask yourself a question whether you create dependability of students on you. This is a tricky question because I personally believe there is nothing wrong if L1 and L2 students perceive me as the source of the language, feedback, and correct information. L3s and L4s might stick to me sometimes just because they feel with me they do things easily while I do provide a lot of support in a language. With higher levels, however, I tend to be a much feistier “mom” than with my beginner learners. And yet, I think…

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    Yanina

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    11 Jun 2019

    Being Reactive Is a Dead End.

    27 Nov 2018
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